自新冠疫情以来,美国针对亚裔等少数族裔的仇恨犯罪案件日益增多。
今年1月31日,一名91岁的华裔老人在美国奥克兰市唐人街附近行走时,一男子从背后对其发起袭击,老人被推倒后受伤。
事件发生后,著名影星吴彦祖联合其他名人发出悬赏寻找犯罪者的有关信息。
2月8日,当地警方宣布28岁的嫌疑人穆斯利姆(Yahya Muslim)已被逮捕,目前其被指控攻击、殴打和虐待老人等5项罪名。
随后,吴彦祖在旧金山奥克兰街头发表演讲,在演讲中,吴彦祖说到:
This issue has been put under the carpet inmost cases.
很多情况下,这个问题(针对亚裔的仇恨犯罪)都被掩盖和忽略了。
These incidents are happening all over thecountry, and we are being smashed in as a one-two punch. There's low-levelpetty crime that's happening to our community. We're being targeted aseasy targets, but on a bigger scale, racist rhetoric from the pandemic hastargeted us, as being you know the reason for coronavirus.
这些事(针对亚裔的仇恨犯罪)在全国范围内不断发生,亚裔正在被组合拳式打击。低层次的犯罪案件发生在华人社区,我们被视作待宰的羔羊。但是在更广泛的层面,关于新冠病毒的种族歧视言论也对准了我们,把我们描述成新冠病毒的元凶。
在最后,他呼吁:
We were angry and we had enough, andthis is an effort, we need to get together as a community, and also askmembers of the outside community to help us in this fight andhelp us on this crisis. We are under attack and we need help.
我们很愤怒,我们受够了!这是一次倡议,我们需要作为一个群体共同行动,但我们同时也需要别的群体在这场战斗中帮助我们,帮助我们度过危机。我们正遭受攻击,我们需要帮助。